I also watch a lot of really bad television when I'm writing, "Like Dancing With the Stars," with my daughter.

Maybe with "Californication" the character was partly based on Rick Moody. I read him and Jay McInerney, the templates for this bad boy novelist.

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.

In high school and college, I was an athlete.

Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.

I kind of dread any kind of critical response, just because it's always painful in some way. Even if it's 80 percent good, it's the 20 percent that's bad that you remember - and that's a higher number than I usually get, 80 percent would be amazing.

You do hear some strange rumours floating around. One I've heard is that I'm allergic to metal.